Uttarakhand is one of 29 states of India. Uttarakhand covers an area of 20,650 sq mi i.e. 53,483 km2. As per area, state ranks 18th in India. There are total 13 districts which comes under Uttarakhand. Further these 13 districts are devided into 55 sub-divisions 77 blocks 35 towns, 3,243 Panchayats, 77 panchayat smities, 12 zila parishad, 49 urban local bodies, 1 nagar nigam 25 nagar parishads, 23 Nagar Panchayats, 20,690 census villages and 17,495 inhabited villages.
There are total 3,866 health intitutions are there in Himachal Pradesh and 17,495 educational institutions are there in state. If we talk about motrable road, total 33,722 km motrable road is there in the state with 8 national highways.
Total population of the state is 10,116,752 in this male population count is 5,154,178 whereas female population count is 4,962,574. Population density of Uttarakhand is 123 and sex ratio here is 963. State's rural population is 61,76,050 and urban population is 6,88,552. In total population count of 68,64,602 scheduled caste population count is 17,29,252 and scheduled tribe population count is 3,92,126.
Uttarakhand's population rank in india is 21 & density is 123/km2 (320/sq mi). People here in Uttarakhand speaks in Hindi, Garhwali, Kumaoni, Sanskrit
and 32 other languages.
Uttarakhand's overall litracy rate is 79.63%. In this male litracy rate is 88.33% and female litracy rate 70.70%.
There are five river baisns available in Uttarakhand these River basins are Himurja, Ravi, Satluj, Beas and Yamuna. Himachal Pradesh's harness potential is aprox 9,000 MW. This state produces 1579,001 tonnes of food grain, and 1,027,012 tonnes of fruits and 900,111 tonnes of vegetables.
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